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Intelligence and Evolutionary Biology pp 175–198Cite as

The Evolution of Intelligence: A Palaeontological Perspective

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Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIG,volume 17))

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The main contribution of the fossil record concerning the evolution of intelligence, as I perceive it, is the time perspective: the time depth.

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  1. Institute of Anthropology, University of Florence, 50122, Florence, Italy

    Martin Pickford

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, 90024, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Pickford, M. (1988). The Evolution of Intelligence: A Palaeontological Perspective. In: Jerison, H.J., Jerison, I. (eds) Intelligence and Evolutionary Biology. NATO ASI Series, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70877-0_11

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